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...Charles Francis Adams used to be president of the Forty Associates, a group of old Boston families with extensive realty holdings in the business district. Because State Street had fun referring to "AH Baba Adams and his 40 thieves," the membership was enlarged, the name changed...
Jane Mast, who is rather unconvincing early in the evening, develops a personality that is persuasive. She has lines which would tax the powers of many screen stars, such as "Ah, I want only the sky, the sea, the earth, simple things," and on the whole emerges unscathed. Harry Hutchinson '33 does an excellent impersonation of a sexagenarian. John Cromwell '36 and J. R. Yungblut '35 also sustained important parts in the production with professional skill. The sets were very realistic and were cleverly handled for seven changes of scene. The Dramatic Club has brought forth another play that deserves...
...better. There are excellences which triumphantly conquer all cavil. Lingering uppermost in memory is ever Mr. Moulan, who is as sprightly an aesthetic sham as ever trod worn boards. Miss Hart, as Patience, she is blithe, and she is gay, and she is sufficient. Mr. Joseph Macaulay makes, ah, a very Narcissus in the velveteens of Archibald the All-Right. If one might criticize Miss Laura Ferguson for languishing overmuch, there is always the answer that languishing becomes her as it did many a Victorian damozel. For the residuum, they are All-Right...
...Ah, Messieurs, I am too much of a philosopher to worry about the possibility of my Government falling. I have already experienced it twice. Being Premier in France is very much like being a steeplechase jockey. Half the skill is in knowing how to fall...
...Oxford, Miss, whence he makes rare, grudging expeditions to literary Manhattan. He still flies occasionally, in an old plane that belongs to a friend. Few of his Oxford neighbors know that Faulkner writes. He is considered none too well off, easygoing, fond of corn liquor. But, says he: "Ah write when the spirit moves me, and the spirit moves me every day." He writes always in longhand, with pen & ink, in incredibly small script of which one sheet makes five or six printed pages. He plays jazz records while he writes; wrote Soldier's Pay to Gershwin...